Tocumen Airport $1 million robbery earns 14 years jail

One of the people involved in the robbery of over a million dollars Tocumen International Airport cargo terminal has been jailed for 14 years.

“The Second Section of Crimes Against the Metropolitan Economic Patrimony achieved a sentence of 14 years in prison for a man, for the crime of aggravated robbery of more than one million dollars, which occurred in 2021, in the facilities of a company at the Airport of Tocumen”, said a  Public Ministry statement.

The robbery occurred on October 6, 2021, at the facilities of the DHL parcel transnational, at Tocumen International. The money was discarded and was destined for the United States.

On January 21, the National Police confirmed the arrest in Penonomé, Coclé, of a man who was involved in the event.